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Pablo de Castro
Degree in Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
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Currently working for the UKRepositoryNet+ Project, http://www.repositorynet.ac.uk/ at EDINA National Data Centre/ University of Edinburgh, Pablo is also Director of the GrandIR startup, http://www.grandir.com/en/ working on the area of open access and research information management.
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The Research Information Management in the United States two-part report series provides a first-of-its-kind documentation of RIM practices at US research universities that presents a thorough examination of RIM practices, goals, stakeholders, and system components. It provides a landscape overview of the state of research information management in...
Research information management (RIM) is a rapidly growing area of investment in US research universities. RIM systems that support the collection and use of research outputs metadata have been in place for many years. Globally, the RIM ecosystem is quite mature in locales where national research assessment exercises like the United Kingdom’s Resea...
This paper reports on the progress that the OpenAIRE-funded, euroCRIS-led METIS2OpenAIRE project means for the implementation of the OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers. An update of these guidelines has taken place in the past two years to enable a smoother and more effective information exchange process between CRIS systems and the OpenAIRE agg...
OCLC Research and euroCRIS, the international organization for research information, partnered to develop a survey and synthesize the results to examine how research institutions worldwide are applying research information management (RIM) practices.
This contribution provides an update on the implementation of the OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers based on CERIF-XML, which aim to allow Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) to be harvested by the OpenAIRE content aggregator. Besides describing the technical challenges posed by this step forward in system interoperability, the text pro...
In the first half of 2015 the European Commission launched a new funding initiative to cover the Open Access publishing costs of publications arising from finished Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) projects. This article addresses the opportunities and challenges faced by this FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot and discusses early project findings si...
The rising strategic importance of Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) and Institutional Repositories (IRs) for higher education and research institutions relates to the need to foster research and innovation and to provide a faster and broader technology transfer to industry and society. These are critical factors for global competitivene...
The survey for collecting information on institutional CRIS systems across Europe was launched on Apr 7th. 2015. This survey, which also covers institutional repositories, was prepared by a joint euroCRIS/EUNIS.
The survey for collecting information on institutional CRIS systems across Europe was launched on Apr 7th. 2015. This survey, which also covers institutional repositories, was prepared by a joint euroCRIS/EUNIS.
http://www.eunis.org/wp-content/themes/eunis/assets/EUNIS2015_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf
Much has been said in recent times about the alleged dichotomy between Institutional Repositories (IRs) and Current Research Information Systems (CRISs). According to this highly ideological argument, IRs would be the platforms to support the non- commercial initiative jointly carried out by HEIs – and specifically their Libraries – in order to fre...
Providing specific outputs for the CRIS community from the euroCRIS Best Practice/DRIS Task Group has remained a pending task for quite a long time. This is a description of the strategy laid out by the new Best Practice/DRIS Task Group management for re-launching TG activity within the wider framework of a euroCRIS service catalogue. A deeper enga...
Things are moving quickly on the policy front with respect to the roads to Open Access with renewed focus on Gold Open Access. Gold OA is essentially the purchase of a service from a publisher: that the Publisher’s (or Published) Final Copy is made available under specified terms of Open Access. This is in contrast to the Green Road to Open Access,...
The SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol was designed to facilitate the interoperable deposit of resources into systems such as repositories. The use of an interoperable standard eases the burden of developing clients to deposit such resources. This paper examines nine different deposit use cases, and provides case studie...
Computational Quantum Chemistry has developed into a powerful, efficient, reliable and increasingly routine tool for exploring the structure and properties of small to medium sized molecules. Many thousands of calculations are performed every day, some offering results which approach experimental accuracy. However, in contrast to other disciplines,...
19 transparencias.-- Presentado en: 4as Jornadas OS-REPOSITORIOS (Barcelona, 3-5 marzo 2010). [ES] Cuando se analizan los datos generales de políticas de promoción del acceso abierto que ofrece ROARMAP se aprecian cuantiosas diferencias entre países. De un análisis más detallado se desprende que uno de los factores clave a la hora de contar con imp...
Con ocasión de las segundas jornadas OS-Repositorios, celebradas en Gijón el pasado mes de diciembre de 2007, el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas presentaba su proyecto de repositorio institucional Digital.CSIC aún en fase de diseño. Poco más de un mes después, el viernes 18 de enero de 2008, tenía lugar la salida a público de Digita...
Enclosed are both the author version of the paper and the final publisher version. The latter one is also available at: http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=183. The Spanish National Research Council has just launched an institutional repository. In this paper the process of setting up Digital.CSIC is explained, as we...
Los trabajos realizados para la puesta en funcionamiento de una interfaz de consulta web para el catálogo de autoridades CIRBIC (Catálogos Informatizados de la Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC) han despertado el interés por conocer otros catálogos similares y poder establecer mediante su análisis una comparación de sus distintas características. El estu...
At a time when institutional policies promoting Open Access to the results of public-funded research are starting to flourish in Spain, it is particularly interesting to know about the evolution and state of development of the archiving infrastructures that will serve as foundations for those policies. In the case of the Spanish National Research C...
Puede haber actualizaciones de este manual a medida que se vayan produciendo evoluciones en el desarrollo de Digital.CSIC. En este breve documento se explican los procedimientos para la actualización (o edición) de registros desde Mi Digital.CSIC, la parte privada del repositorio institucional Digital.CSIC. Peer reviewed
Comunicación presentada a las Jornadas TecniMAP 2007 Con ocasión de las IX Jornadas TecniMap, celebradas en Sevilla el año 2006, el CSIC presentó una comunicación titulada “Hacia una estrategia Open Access en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas”. En dicha comunicación se expresaba la intención de poner en marcha un repositorio instit...
2 pages.-- Spanish and English versions available. [ES] Con motivo de la celebración del 'Open Access Day' el pasado martes 14 de octubre, desde la Oficina Técnica Digital.CSIC se quiso aprovechar la efeméride para estimular el archivo de trabajos en el repositorio del CSIC por parte de investigadores y bibliotecas de la institución. A continuación...
3 pp.-- Versión publicada del artículo disponible en: http://www.csic.es/cbic/enredadera/boletin15/lared.html#digital. [ES] Seis meses después de la salida a público del repositorio institucional Digital.CSIC, en este artículo se hace un primer balance del proceso de desarrollo e implementación del nuevo recurso de información del Consejo Superior...
11 pp.-- Ponencia presentada en: IV Congreso sobre Comunicación Social de la Ciencia (CSCiencia 2007: "Cultura Científica y Cultura Democrática", Madrid, 21-23 noviembre 2007). La Biblioteca Matemática Digital Española (DML-E), que se enmarca en la política de fomento de la difusión de la producción científica promovida por el movimiento Open Acces...
A medida que el acceso abierto como modelo de comunicación científica va arraigando en el mundo científico-académico y surgen cada vez más repositorios institucionales, se plantea la necesidad de encontrar algún criterio que permita evaluar los progresos en el desarrollo de este tipo de aplicaciones. El más evidente de ellos podría ser el volumen d...
Aquesta comunicació se centra en l'estudi de la mida, la flexibilitat i l'estabilitat dels equips que gestionen els dipòsits espanyols en l'actualitat, per tal de determinar si són prou sòlids i estables com per suportar mandats institucionals. Per això s'ha realitzat una enquesta entre els dipòsits per tal de recopilar informació sobre l'estructur...
Sharing of scholarly content through a network of Open Access repositories is becoming commonplace but there is still need for systematic attention into ways to increase the rate of deposit into, and transfer of content across, the OA repository space. This is a report of the work of a small international group, supported by JISC, with remit to des...
Durante el 'International Repositories Workshop' celebrado en Amsterdam en marzo de 2009 se señaló la urgente necesidad de incrementar los contenidos almacenados en los repositorios institucionales. Bien a través de la promoción de iniciativas para la transferencia automática de contenidos desde los editores o mediante el desarrollo de la interoper...
After the 1st Open Access Africa conference was held last Nov 10-11th at Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, the authors were checking values in Africa for some important Open Access-related indicators at worldmapper.org, such as Tertiary education, Tertiary education spending, Science research and Internet users. All these indicators being...
Mesa redonda sobre: El bibliotecario como gestor de proyectos digitales. Moderador: Jordi Serrano (UPC). Intervienen: Eugenio Tardón (UCM), José Antonio Merlo-Vega (USAL), Pablo de Castro (UC3M), Mario Cottereau (CSIC).
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Besides the investment in journal subcriptions for their libraries, research organisations spend quite a large amount of resources in paying for publication fees, either for publications in Open Access journals or as regular fees for publishing with toll-access publishers. However, tracking those payments is very difficult for institutions due to the fact that Financial Administration Software Modules often lack a specific field for such expenses. Besides that, individual fees being quite small, researchers will often charge the publishing cost to some other expense account. When suggested that filling a Purchase Order at manuscript submission time might solve this expense reporting issue, some researchers disregard the suggestion claiming that if the article gets rejected, they'll be forced to create yet a new PO. However, a recent survey by Vincent Calcagno et al found that approximately 75% of submitted manuscripts get published by the journal they were submitted to in the first place. So would then POs be a good means for institutional tracking of their expenses associated to research paper publication?